With the 2026 Stanley Cup Final now underway between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Vegas Golden Knights, the placement of nearly all of the Calgary Flames draft choices in the upcoming 2026 NHL Draft are set.

Here’s a quick rundown of where the Flames pick stand, and their historical relevancy, heading towards the finish line of the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs.

What picks do the Flames in the 2026 NHL Draft?

The Flames currently own 11 draft choices in the 2026 NHL Draft.

The picks are:

1st round, 6th overall
1st round, 30th or 31st overall [Vegas’ pick] – 30th if Vegas loses Cup Final, 31st if they win
2nd round, 35th overall [NY Rangers’ pick]
2nd round, 36th overall
2nd round, 51st overall [Utah’s pick]
2nd round, 56th overall [Ottawa’s pick]
3rd round, 65th overall [Vancouver’s pick]
3rd round, 68th overall
4th round, 100th overall
5th round, 132nd overall
6th round, 164th overall

Is Calgary’s four second-round picks a lot?

Four second-rounders is unusual. It’s tied for the most the Flames have had in a single round. In 2002, they made four fifth-round picks: Jiri Cetkovsky, Emanuel Peter, Viktor Bobrov and Kristofer Persson. None of them played a single NHL game.

They’ve made three picks in a single round seven times:

Three first-rounders in 2013 (Sean Monahan, Emile Poirier and Morgan Klimchuk)
Three second-rounders in 1977 (Miles Zaharko, Don Laurence and Brian Hill)
Three second-rounders in 1980 (Tony Curtale, Kevin LaVallee and Steve Konroyd)
Three second-rounders in 1990 (Nicolas Perreault, Vesa Viitakovski, Etienne Belzile)
Three second-rounders in 1997 (Evan Lindsay, John Tripp and Ivan Kororev)
Three fourth-rounders in 1983 (John Bekkers, Kevan Guy and Bill Claviter)
Three fourth-rounders in 2018 (Martin Pospisil, Demetrios Koumontzis and Milos Roman)

Aside from Monahan and perhaps Pospisil, there’s not a ton of home-run picks in those past three-pick rounds.

How did the Flames acquire their additional picks?

The Flames have five picks in this year’s draft that they acquired from other teams.

They acquired Vegas’ first-round pick as part of the Noah Hanifin trade in 2024 – Hanifin went to Vegas in exchange for Daniil Miromanov, a 2024 third-round pick (used to select Kirill Zarubin) and this pick.

They acquired second-round picks from the NY Rangers, Utah and Ottawa as part of the MacKenzie Weegar trade in March – Weegar went to Utah in exchange for Jonathan Castagna, Olli Maatta and these three picks.

They acquired Vancouver’s third-round pick in the Nikita Zadorov trade in 2023 – Zadorov went to Vancouver in exchange for a 2024 fifth-round pick (later traded to San Jose for Nikita Okhotiuk) and this pick.

The Flames do not have their own seventh-round pick this year, though, as they traded it to Detroit at last year’s draft in exchange a seventh-round pick they used to select Yan Matveiko.

What is the value of the Flames’ draft picks?

According to PuckPedia’s Perri Pick Value Calculator, the Flames’ 11 picks have a combined value of 92.3.

That’s fourth-highest among the league, behind only Toronto (108.6), Vancouver (99.3) and San Jose (97.4).

The 2026 NHL Draft is June 26 and 27, conducted remotely from Buffalo, New York.

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